Yeah, I just re-watched all of TGP this past week and Eleanor is super horny for Tehani. She mentions it directly like once every few episodes.

“then we got this look to Finn”

He’s paid to read words, not write them.

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

The same white guy who writes the same comment in every comment section and then attacks anyone who has the audacity to disagree with him.

It’s funny that the top comment in this section is from a white guy saying it’s not his place to comment.

This may be apropos of nothing, but Laserface1242 is a fucking idiot who never knows when to shut the fuck up. There, I’ve said my piece.

Could this be a test balloon so they can really rip Spielberg in a couple of months?

Americans have a perverse obsession with “race” and skin color.

Imagine having the audacity to defend a personal friend?

This is so far past the point of parody.

But Rowan, I've already explained that I'm too lazy to look it up on the Internet. Wikipedia is part of the Internet. Besides, that won't answer my last question about whether the idea was used elsewhere before.

Are you sure it wasn't a girly scream, Mulder?

Duchovny's standard deadpan makes it way more effective when he occasionally shows a reaction. The crazed puppy-yelp from this episode is pretty great (I bet there were some even weirder versions in the outtakes)— also every time he gets pissed off and insults some guy who's beating him up and/or holding him at…

Thinking about it now, I wonder if the episode might have been partially inspired by "The Lottery in Babylon" by Jorge Luis Borges, in which a lucky draw brings wealth, "an unlucky draw: mutilation, dishonor of many kinds, death itself."

Yep, that's a dead bleeping alien, all right.

Yipes!

Blaine, describing Scully and Mulder:

i think i also first saw jose chung's from outer space when i was 12 and i loved it. i will confess a great deal of it also went over my head, but i've gone back and my love for it has only deepened.